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This market from Ladbrokes is an interesting one. Priti Patel who previously was a ‘winner’ in this market when in 2017 she had to resign in disgrace when she deludedly thought she was Foreign Secretary is the favourite in this market, at 1/1 evens I’m not remotely interested at those odds.

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rottenborough

First. Like Biden.

williamglenn

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1234253492774227969

FrancisUrquhart

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1234254306829881345?s=20

AramintaMoonbeamQC

Mayor Pete out before Super Tuesday, is the Stop Bernie bandwagon rolling?

Nigelb

Doesn’t everyone call him George Useless ?

rottenborough

FrancisUrquhart said:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1234254306829881345?s=20

Cabinet place secured.

Sad to see him go.

But he has very bright future in the Dem party.

Benpointer

FrancisUrquhart said:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1234254306829881345?s=20

Who is he going to throw his support behind?

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234255764086251521?s=20

Why drop out before Super Tuesday? Or is there more to it than "suspending campaign"?

For example,

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1234256343013494785?s=20

FrancisUrquhart

I presume the DNC establishment are all going now putting all their efforts into Biden as the stop Bernie candidate. Sad.....

Foxy

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

AramintaMoonbeamQC

rottenborough said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1234254306829881345?s=20

Cabinet place secured.

Sad to see him go.

But he has very bright future in the Dem party.

He was a fascinating candidate, and has succeeded in raising his profile massively. Impressive.

Will Warren or Klobuchar move before Tuesday?

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1234253752292511744

HYUFD

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1234256327339364355?s=20

Benpointer

Night all - interesting chats as ever!

nichomar

End of day figure 81, I would look to Italy for a model of how this could develop. As I keep saying it’s not the virus itself that is the problem it is the way it sucks resource out of health services and the economics. Also there are other things happening in the world which are now don the news agenda and may be missed. This will be a great test of wether the governments across Europe are fit for purpose, the jury is out but we can only wait and see

IanB2

Some of the gains made in Fridays post-close trading are being lost in Monday’s pre-opens. Keep selling GBP/CHF.

rottenborough

AramintaMoonbeamQC said:

rottenborough said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1234254306829881345?s=20

Cabinet place secured.

Sad to see him go.

But he has very bright future in the Dem party.

He was a fascinating candidate, and has succeeded in raising his profile massively. Impressive.

Will Warren or Klobuchar move before Tuesday?

They should. Pete has shown the way.

Astonishing for a mayor to come this far. David Axelrod was right way back a year or more ago.

rottenborough

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

*dark, bitter laughter*

Pandemic.

FrancisUrquhart

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

I don't fancy their chances of implementing a Chinese style lock-down.

Andy_JS

Does anyone have any idea which candidate Buttigieg is likely to endorse?

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1234255680841760768?s=20

CatMan

Another Brexit benefit:
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1234242149530656768?s=20

rottenborough

FrancisUrquhart said:

I presume the DNC establishment are all going now putting all their efforts into Biden as the stop Bernie candidate. Sad.....

What is the alternative?

A Sanders wipe out in the General?

HYUFD

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234255764086251521?s=20

Why drop out before Super Tuesday? Or is there more to it than "suspending campaign"?

For example,

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1234256343013494785?s=20

Buttigieg was behind in polls in every Super Tuesday state and clearly saw the writing on the wall, he needed to win New Hampshire or South Carolina to stay viable and did not so sensible move from him and puts him in contention for the VP slot for Biden or Sanders

williamglenn

FrancisUrquhart said:

I presume the DNC establishment are all going now putting all their efforts into Biden as the stop Bernie candidate. Sad.....

Or perhaps they want neither Biden nor Sanders, and winnowing the rest of the candidates is the only way to put someone else in contention.

rottenborough

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234255764086251521?s=20

Why drop out before Super Tuesday? Or is there more to it than "suspending campaign"?

For example,

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1234256343013494785?s=20

His percent of voters can now feel free to tick Biden on Tuesday to stop Sanders.

Statesman level decision.

FrancisUrquhart

rottenborough said:

FrancisUrquhart said:

I presume the DNC establishment are all going now putting all their efforts into Biden as the stop Bernie candidate. Sad.....

What is the alternative?

A Sanders wipe out in the General?

That's what I mean, sad situation. We are getting down to it being Orange Man, Bernie or Biden. 300+ million people and the choice is one of these 3 old blokes.

Andy_JS

Biden has already moved to 3.35 with BFE.

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.128161111

rottenborough

I doubt Pete will be veep.

But a big role is assured.

Assuming. Big assuming, Biden can beat the anti-vax merchant in chief.

Foxy

rottenborough said:

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234255764086251521?s=20

Why drop out before Super Tuesday? Or is there more to it than "suspending campaign"?

For example,

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1234256343013494785?s=20

His percent of voters can now feel free to tick Biden on Tuesday to stop Sanders.

Statesman level decision.

That doesn't appear to be their choice:

https://twitter.com/326Pols/status/1234256433472049154?s=19

rottenborough

Andy_JS said:

Does anyone have any idea which candidate Buttigieg is likely to endorse?

Me. Choose me. Choose me sir!!!

Biden.

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1234256503915180032?s=20

Nothing in his campaign became him like the leaving of it....

another_richard

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1234255680841760768?s=20

Didn't Speedy tell us that ?

And received some criticism as a result.

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234258266936528896?s=20

Nigelb

rottenborough said:

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234255764086251521?s=20

Why drop out before Super Tuesday? Or is there more to it than "suspending campaign"?

For example,

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1234256343013494785?s=20

His percent of voters can now feel free to tick Biden on Tuesday to stop Sanders.

Statesman level decision.

Agreed.
At this point such decisions are a struggle between ego and common sense. Good to see that he is not without the latter quality.

another_richard

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Over 100 million now according to wiki.

That's over a 40 million increase during the last 25 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Demographics

MikeSmithson

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1234258882576420865

Richard_Tyndall

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

CarlottaVance

MRDA:

https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1234259180980260865?s=20

Philip_Thompson

CatMan said:

Another Brexit benefit:
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1234242149530656768?s=20

I fail to see any reason whatsoever the EU should be meddling in this.

This isn't a European issue its a global one. We shouldn't have the EU as some jumped up middleman, we should be coordinating our response locally in line with global coordination via the World Health Organisation whose job it literally is to coordinate that.

Any resources going to the EU for this should be going to the WHO. It makes no difference to us whether someone carrying an epidemic bug is travelling from Milan or Cairo or Berlin or Washington or Paris or Beijing.

rottenborough

MikeSmithson said:

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1234258882576420865

Lay Bloomberg.

Philip_Thompson

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

Foxy's Tweet does.

rottenborough

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/cam_joseph/status/1234256503915180032?s=20

Nothing in his campaign became him like the leaving of it....

Astonishing achievement.

rottenborough

Foxy said:

rottenborough said:

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234255764086251521?s=20

Why drop out before Super Tuesday? Or is there more to it than "suspending campaign"?

For example,

https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1234256343013494785?s=20

His percent of voters can now feel free to tick Biden on Tuesday to stop Sanders.

Statesman level decision.

That doesn't appear to be their choice:

https://twitter.com/326Pols/status/1234256433472049154?s=19

So Bloomberg needs to drop out as well.

Richard_Tyndall

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

The tweet you replied to does say that. It is wrong.

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1234258251295838208

Andy_JS

rottenborough said:

MikeSmithson said:

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1234258882576420865

Lay Bloomberg.

I can't see Bloomberg's campaign lasting more than about 48 hours. Who's still backing him?

rottenborough

Andy_JS said:

rottenborough said:

MikeSmithson said:

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1234258882576420865

Lay Bloomberg.

I can't see Bloomberg's campaign lasting more than about 48 hours. Who's still backing him?

Himself. To the tune of billions.

Richard_Tyndall

eadric said:

Philip_Thompson said:

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

Foxy's Tweet does.

Ah, I suspect the journalist means "Egypt has the biggest population in MENA" - which is true. But not true of Africa as whole.

If I had to choose two countries in Africa which are vulnerable to coronavirus they would be Egypt and Nigeria. Sufficiently open to get the bug, bigtime, but with some crippling social and cultural problems which will not help. And very crowded in places.

It is worrying that they are the two countries now in Africa to have announced they have the contagion. Though I wonder if it is more that they have medical infrastructure making it possible to detect the virus whilst other African countries do not.

rottenborough

Laying Bloomberg until I am barely green.

rottenborough

Mid flight.

https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1234258657602236416

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1234129606124490753

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1234263037110083587

rottenborough

Trump is a disappointed man tonight.

rcs1000

VP Buttigieg?

MarqueeMark

rottenborough said:

Mid flight.

https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1234258657602236416

Has anyone ever resurrected a "suspended" campaign?

nico67

CatMan said:

Another Brexit benefit:
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1234242149530656768?s=20

Utter lunacy . Just as leaving the EU patent system is yet another dreadful decision . Does this rancid government think the public will riot if the UK stays in some EU agencies which benefit the country .

All this because of their obsession with the ECJ , they seem to think this is out to get the UK when it’s frequently been on the UKs side .

MarqueeMark

rottenborough said:

Andy_JS said:

rottenborough said:

MikeSmithson said:

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1234258882576420865

Lay Bloomberg.

I can't see Bloomberg's campaign lasting more than about 48 hours. Who's still backing him?

Himself. To the tune of billions.

He's really really old. What else does a narcisistic billionaire spend his billions on at his age?

rottenborough

rcs1000 said:

VP Buttigieg?

I don't think so.

Perhaps that was the price, but I'm thinking more Sec of Defence or National Security.

Harris for veep?

MarqueeMark

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Philip_Thompson said:

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

Foxy's Tweet does.

Ah, I suspect the journalist means "Egypt has the biggest population in MENA" - which is true. But not true of Africa as whole.

If I had to choose two countries in Africa which are vulnerable to coronavirus they would be Egypt and Nigeria. Sufficiently open to get the bug, bigtime, but with some crippling social and cultural problems which will not help. And very crowded in places.

It is worrying that they are the two countries now in Africa to have announced they have the contagion. Though I wonder if it is more that they have medical infrastructure making it possible to detect the virus whilst other African countries do not.

You follow my thoughts exactly. The only other African countries which might identify this bug are Morocco and South Africa, to my mind.

I reckon in a lot of very poor third world countries, coronavirus will pass almost unobserved (tho present) because of the general high mortality rate and nearly non-existent health care. I'm talking about India, Pakistan, Bolivia, much of sub Saharan Africa. Will they even notice Covid?

In the Congo (DC/DRC), they don't shake hands, they rub opposite temples together. Can't see that tradition lasting much longer.....

rottenborough

Meanwhile. Why Biden has to win.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1234225268207898627

Andy_JS

MarqueeMark said:

rottenborough said:

Andy_JS said:

rottenborough said:

MikeSmithson said:

https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/1234258882576420865

Lay Bloomberg.

I can't see Bloomberg's campaign lasting more than about 48 hours. Who's still backing him?

Himself. To the tune of billions.

He's really really old. What else does a narcisistic billionaire spend his billions on at his age?

Same age as Biden and Sanders.

IshmaelZ

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Philip_Thompson said:

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

Foxy's Tweet does.

Ah, I suspect the journalist means "Egypt has the biggest population in MENA" - which is true. But not true of Africa as whole.

If I had to choose two countries in Africa which are vulnerable to coronavirus they would be Egypt and Nigeria. Sufficiently open to get the bug, bigtime, but with some crippling social and cultural problems which will not help. And very crowded in places.

It is worrying that they are the two countries now in Africa to have announced they have the contagion. Though I wonder if it is more that they have medical infrastructure making it possible to detect the virus whilst other African countries do not.

You follow my thoughts exactly. The only other African countries which might identify this bug are Morocco and South Africa, to my mind.

I reckon in a lot of very poor third world countries, coronavirus will pass almost unobserved (tho present) because of the general high mortality rate and nearly non-existent health care. I'm talking about India, Pakistan, Bolivia, much of sub Saharan Africa. Will they even notice Covid?

Kenya is on the case

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3053018/coronavirus-kenya-suspends-flights-china-orders-isolation-239

williamglenn

rottenborough said:

Trump is a disappointed man tonight.

I don't think he's afraid of Joe Biden. You can see in that tweet he's already looking forward to the prospect of Sanders voters staying at home.

AramintaMoonbeamQC

rcs1000 said:

VP Buttigieg?

Kamala Harris, surely?

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1234265588794568704

NickPalmer

another_richard said:

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1234255680841760768?s=20

Didn't Speedy tell us that ?

And received some criticism as a result.

I was predicting that he and Klobouchar would quit, ideally in exchange for promises from Biden.

It's not obvious from the polls that Biden will get a much larger share of his votes than Sanders unless Buttigieg actually endorses him, but Biden has the momentum at the moment. I suspect Super Tuesday will still be good for Sanders, but not the knockout blow that it might have been.

williamglenn

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1234264100571680770

Richard_Tyndall

rottenborough said:

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1234265588794568704

I am really sorry Buttigieg is out. It worries me that he failed to connect with African American voters. Is this because of him or them?

moonshine

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Philip_Thompson said:

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

Foxy's Tweet does.

Ah, I suspect the journalist means "Egypt has the biggest population in MENA" - which is true. But not true of Africa as whole.

If I had to choose two countries in Africa which are vulnerable to coronavirus they would be Egypt and Nigeria. Sufficiently open to get the bug, bigtime, but with some crippling social and cultural problems which will not help. And very crowded in places.

It is worrying that they are the two countries now in Africa to have announced they have the contagion. Though I wonder if it is more that they have medical infrastructure making it possible to detect the virus whilst other African countries do not.

You follow my thoughts exactly. The only other African countries which might identify this bug are Morocco and South Africa, to my mind.

I reckon in a lot of very poor third world countries, coronavirus will pass almost unobserved (tho present) because of the general high mortality rate and nearly non-existent health care. I'm talking about India, Pakistan, Bolivia, much of sub Saharan Africa. Will they even notice Covid?

When you think this through, containment is now really all about flattening the curve until there’s an effective anti viral treatment. That’s it. Because unless Coronavirus shrivels in the sun like the Orcs, the tide is going to break over us sooner or later. No one can win whack a mole forever.

Gilead have the treatment people seem hopeful about. If that one doesn’t end up working then I think it’s time to start getting quite depressed. Because then we’re waiting for a mass produced vaccine. And my uninformed gut tells me that will even harder to develop than a treatment.

FrancisUrquhart

MarqueeMark said:

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Philip_Thompson said:

eadric said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

eadric said:

Foxy said:

Oh dear.

https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1234254477823283201?s=19

Incidentally, Egypt has an insanely oversized population. 100 million??! Anyone who has been there knows it can barely support a fifth of that in any kind of comfort.

Perhaps that is why The Virus has arrived.

Though that tweet is wrong. Egypt does not have the highest population in Africa. That dubious honour goes to Nigeria with 187 million people - almost twice that of Egypt.

They have also just announced their first cases....

Edit. Apologies Nigeria is even more than I thought - 200 million is the latest estimate. 60 years ago it was 45 million.

I never said they have the highest population in Africa?

Foxy's Tweet does.

Ah, I suspect the journalist means "Egypt has the biggest population in MENA" - which is true. But not true of Africa as whole.

If I had to choose two countries in Africa which are vulnerable to coronavirus they would be Egypt and Nigeria. Sufficiently open to get the bug, bigtime, but with some crippling social and cultural problems which will not help. And very crowded in places.

It is worrying that they are the two countries now in Africa to have announced they have the contagion. Though I wonder if it is more that they have medical infrastructure making it possible to detect the virus whilst other African countries do not.

You follow my thoughts exactly. The only other African countries which might identify this bug are Morocco and South Africa, to my mind.

I reckon in a lot of very poor third world countries, coronavirus will pass almost unobserved (tho present) because of the general high mortality rate and nearly non-existent health care. I'm talking about India, Pakistan, Bolivia, much of sub Saharan Africa. Will they even notice Covid?

In the Congo (DC/DRC), they don't shake hands, they rub opposite temples together. Can't see that tradition lasting much longer.....

How will the French cope with being told no longer to do La Bise...

NickPalmer

On topic, I think Eustice will be fine (I know him quite well through my work) - he's not ploughing a lonely furrow, but simply doing what Johnson wants. I don't think it would help Johnson to dump him - the policy would still be there, and really we won't see a settled picture until the trade deals are done (or not).

Chameleon

Italians calling back in retirees for to help in the hospitals. They're struggling with just 1300 cases.

FrancisUrquhart

moonshine said:

When you think this through, containment is now really all about flattening the curve until there’s an effective anti viral treatment. That’s it. Because unless Coronavirus shrivels in the sun like the Orcs, the tide is going to break over us sooner or later. No one can win whack a mole forever.

Gilead have the treatment people seem hopeful about. If that one doesn’t end up working then I think it’s time to start getting quite depressed. Because then we’re waiting for a mass produced vaccine. And my uninformed gut tells me that will even harder to develop than a treatment.

The positive is there are apparently two treatments, which are already well studied, been cleared for humans, and already been trialled in human. Thus, if they do appear to work they could be rolled out very quickly.

nunu2

AramintaMoonbeamQC said:

Mayor Pete out before Super Tuesday, is the Stop Bernie bandwagon rolling?

Not necessarily.

https://mobile.twitter.com/gl0balism/status/1234212444530257921

nunu2

Richard_Tyndall said:

rottenborough said:

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1234265588794568704

I am really sorry Buttigieg is out. It worries me that he failed to connect with African American voters. Is this because of him or them?

Him

nunu2

AramintaMoonbeamQC said:

rcs1000 said:

VP Buttigieg?

Kamala Harris, surely?

Surely depends on who the nominee is.

Funnily enough if Bernie is the nominee then a moderate is probably more likely to be his VP pick because hell want to reach out to that half of the party.

rottenborough

nunu2 said:

AramintaMoonbeamQC said:

Mayor Pete out before Super Tuesday, is the Stop Bernie bandwagon rolling?

Not necessarily.

https://mobile.twitter.com/gl0balism/status/1234212444530257921

That just tells us Bloomberg needs to p*ss off.

CarlottaVance

https://twitter.com/politcalcapitai/status/1234261189707927552?s=21

https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-bay-area-health-care-workers-are-presumptive-positive-with-covid-19-alameda-county-declares-health-emergency

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1234270530863345669

rottenborough

Amazon says 2 employees infected, as tech companies introduce new restrictions worldwide.
Two Amazon employees in Europe have contracted the coronavirus, the company said, and other tech firms have begun taking more drastic measures to prevent their employees around the world from being affected by the outbreak.

HYUFD

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1234268585863917574?s=20

rottenborough

Did Pres. Carter talk Pete out of keeping going?

rottenborough

HYUFD said:

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1234268585863917574?s=20

Thanks Mike. Now stand down and give the money to Biden.

FrancisUrquhart

Scientists in China raised the alarm about coronavirus in December but were told by government officials to suppress the evidence, a report has claimed.

In December a number of sick patients in Wuhan were tested by genomics companies, who noticed similarities between their illnesses and SARS, as reported by Caixin Global.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-29/in-depth-how-early-signs-of-a-sars-like-virus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-101521745.html

rottenborough

Only Biden or Buttigieg could stop Sanders being the nominee and therefore four more years of Trump.

Now only Biden is left.

Yes. He's too old etc etc.

But what choice do sane people have?

HYUFD

Richard_Tyndall said:

rottenborough said:

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1234265588794568704

I am really sorry Buttigieg is out. It worries me that he failed to connect with African American voters. Is this because of him or them?

A bit of both, black voters love Biden as he was Obama's VP but also only 51% of African Americans back gay marriage compared to 63% of Americans as a whole now

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/15/pete-buttigieg-black-voters-1322396

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1234261086234456064

dixiedean

CarlottaVance said:

https://twitter.com/politcalcapitai/status/1234261189707927552?s=21

https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-bay-area-health-care-workers-are-presumptive-positive-with-covid-19-alameda-county-declares-health-emergency

Mmm.Alameda. Washington State. Tech workers. Couldn't write a better series of locations for fake liberal hoax.

nunu2

Why it can't be Mayo Pete as VP for either Biden or Bernie.

https://mobile.twitter.com/baseballot/status/1234271423914487808

AndreaParma_82

FWIIW (little)

House of Deputies by-election in Italy took place today

Lazio 1 constituency (it is one of the Rome city center constituencies)

Turnout: 17.66%

PD (finance minister Gualtieri) 62.24%
Brothers of Italy/Lega/Forza Italia (candidate was from Brothers of Italy) 26.08%
M5S 4.36%
Communist Party 2.62%
Power to the People 2.41%
People of Families 1.32%
VOLT 0.97%


2018 GE was PD (Gentiloni) 42% Centre-right 30% M5S 17%

nunu2

Pete had the best policy on healthcare:

Medicare for all *who want it*.

Andy_JS

HYUFD said:

Richard_Tyndall said:

rottenborough said:

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1234265588794568704

I am really sorry Buttigieg is out. It worries me that he failed to connect with African American voters. Is this because of him or them?

A bit of both, black voters love Biden as he was Obama's VP but also only 51% of African Americans back gay marriage compared to 63% of Americans as a whole now

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/15/pete-buttigieg-black-voters-1322396

How long will it be before older black voters are labelled "problematic" in some quarters?

nico67

Philip_Thompson said:

CatMan said:

Another Brexit benefit:
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1234242149530656768?s=20

I fail to see any reason whatsoever the EU should be meddling in this.

This isn't a European issue its a global one. We shouldn't have the EU as some jumped up middleman, we should be coordinating our response locally in line with global coordination via the World Health Organisation whose job it literally is to coordinate that.

Any resources going to the EU for this should be going to the WHO. It makes no difference to us whether someone carrying an epidemic bug is travelling from Milan or Cairo or Berlin or Washington or Paris or Beijing.

So you know more than those who work in the NHS ? They wanted to remain in that . Do you seriously think the public will riot if the UK stayed in this . Would this not be proper Brexit!

rottenborough

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1233919926047514624

HYUFD

rottenborough said:

HYUFD said:

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1234268585863917574?s=20

Thanks Mike. Now stand down and give the money to Biden.

With Buttigieg out Bloomberg is probably of the view Biden isn't up to it and Sanders is unelectable so only he can now beat Trump, whether by a comeback to win the Democratic nomination or by an independent run if Sanders gets the nomination, all funded by his vast coffers

rottenborough

nunu2 said:

Why it can't be Mayo Pete as VP for either Biden or Bernie.

https://mobile.twitter.com/baseballot/status/1234271423914487808

And help deliver their home state.

Harris is CA iirc.

A state the Dems win anyway.

So I'm going off Harris.

Female in a large state that leans either way?

HYUFD

AndreaParma_82 said:

FWIIW (little)

House of Deputies by-election in Italy took place today

Lazio 1 constituency (it is one of the Rome city center constituencies)

Turnout: 17.66%

PD (finance minister Gualtieri) 62.24%
Brothers of Italy/Lega/Forza Italia (candidate was from Brothers of Italy) 26.08%
M5S 4.36%
Communist Party 2.62%
Power to the People 2.41%
People of Families 1.32%
VOLT 0.97%


2018 GE was PD (Gentiloni) 42% Centre-right 30% M5S 17%

Clear shift from M5S to PD there but central Rome is strongly left liberal anyway

rottenborough

Joe:


https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1234261485913804800

nico67

HYUFD said:

rottenborough said:

HYUFD said:

https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1234268585863917574?s=20

Thanks Mike. Now stand down and give the money to Biden.

With Buttigieg out Bloomberg is probably of the view Biden isn't up to it and Sanders is unelectable so only he can now beat Trump, whether by a comeback to win the Democratic nomination or by an independent run if Sanders gets the nomination, all funded by his vast coffers

Bloomberg despises Trump . Running as an independent would help hand him 4 more years .